1 I had the small levers in my pocket.
2 I pressed the lever over to its extreme position.
3 But at last the lever was fitted and pulled over.
4 Then the Time Traveller put forth his finger towards the lever.
5 I rolled over, and as I did so my hand came against my iron lever.
6 Presently I am going to press the lever, and off the machine will go.
7 I stared for a minute at the Time Machine and put out my hand and touched the lever.
8 In a moment my hand was on the lever, and I had placed a month between myself and these monsters.
9 One hand on the saddle, the other on the lever, I stood panting heavily in attitude to mount again.
10 I drew a breath, set my teeth, gripped the starting lever with both hands, and went off with a thud.
11 Clambering upon the stand, and grasping this lever in my hands, I put all my weight upon it sideways.
12 I took the starting lever in one hand and the stopping one in the other, pressed the first, and almost immediately the second.
13 Then, struck with a sudden idea, I left her and turned to a machine from which projected a lever not unlike those in a signal-box.
14 Like an impatient fool, I lugged over the lever, and incontinently the thing went reeling over, and I was flung headlong through the air.
15 I had judged the strength of the lever pretty correctly, for it snapped after a minute's strain, and I rejoined her with a mace in my hand more than sufficient, I judged, for any Morlock skull I might encounter.
16 Happily then, when it was not too late, I thought of a danger I had hitherto forgotten, and reaching over the bars of the machine I unscrewed the little levers that would set it in motion, and put these in my pocket.
17 Then, when we had all imitated the action of the Medical Man, he said: 'Now I want you clearly to understand that this lever, being pressed over, sends the machine gliding into the future, and this other reverses the motion.'
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